Correspondent|BILLIONAIRE telecoms magnet Strive Masiyiwa is funding the wife of former Masvingo ZANU PF Chairperson Daniel Shumba, it has been alleged.
The revelations came when exiled businessman Mutumwa Mawere had a wide ranging interview with Daniel Shumba.
In the interview Shumba alleges that Masiyiwa is funding his wife to divorce him because Shumba has recordings of how Strive Masiyiwa stole Econet Wireless shares in cahoots with banker Nigel Chanakira.
The interview was posted by Gambakwe Media on YouTube.
Masiyiwa responded by sending his lawyers to sue Mawere and the journalists who posted the videos online.
The lawyers demanded that by the 7th of January 2019 Mawere and his accomplices pull down the videos from YouTube and offer a public apology or risk having a 20 million dollar lawsuit.
The video was pulled down from YouTube but Mawere has refused to apologize and has been defiant saying he wants to meet the Telecommunications guru in court if he is served with papers.
Recently Temba Mliswa wrote a Twitter thread saying Mawere and Shumba were jealousy of Strive Masiyiwa because they failed to influence succession within ZANU PF and ended up losing their businesses.
Temba further alleged that Mawere and Strive obtained their businesses through political patronage being supported by the later Vice Presidents Simon Muzenda and Joshua Nkomo respectively.
When his wife was hounded out of Facebook by trolls, Masiyiwa had a long message to say.
The Higher Life Foundation has provided scholarships for 200,000 children in Zimbabwe over the last 20 years. With a permanent staff of more than 200 people, it works in every single province of Zimbabwe.
Every year the foundation gives scholarships to 100 gifted children (10 from each province, including 50 girls). This 18 year program which we call Joshua Nkomo Scholarship prepares students to go to some of the best universities in the world. This program has produced a Rhodes Scholar 5 years in a row. There are currently 354 Joshualites studying in the United States.
Now here is something I want to put on record:
#1. Higher Life Foundation and the Joshua Nkomo Scholarship program, is entirely the brain child of my wife Tsitsi Masiyiwa.
She is the one who set them up and EVERY OTHER PROGRAM and manages them on a full time basis.
She just comes to me for the money.
She is also the one who finds all the donor partners who we work with throughout Africa.
I have never seen the foundation, and I have never participated in any of its activities, beyond providing the money. I am not even a board member.
I have not been to Zimbabwe for 18 and half years, but in all those years my wife insisted she would continue to go there, and was once detained and questioned by Mugabe police for an entire day.
She travels the length and breadth of Zimbabwe every year supporting orphaned and vulnerable children,
#2. When the Cholera outbreak began in Zimbabwe a few months ago. It was my wife who showed me the World Health Organization presentation that predicted that it could kill 10,000 people, if it went unchecked:
She demanded that I put up $10m to cover the cost. Subsequently she asked for another $10m. Now she has asked that I commit $60m to help restore water and sewage piping in Harare.
She is the one who drafted the letters that I had to sign to donors around the world.
To paraphrase the Apostle Jude, we must contend, and fight for that which is good.
I would like to thank all those friends like Trevor Ncube, who have stood up for my wife whilst she was being cyber bullied, shouted down and stalked on platforms like Twitter.
Sadly one of the foremost bullies is a Zimbabwean who works for an international organization that is highly respected for its work on human rights. The founder, now 95 is a close family friend. I hope my human rights friend is happy now that he has stopped her from using Twitter. Maybe now he and others like him will stop this pathetic misogyny.
What about the rights of women like my wife to also express an opinion?
Source: Zoom zim